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Chenai Kadi

This dish goes very well with rasam and was my mother's masterpiece delicacy!

Chenai Kadi

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Chenai Kadi recipe - How to make Chenai Kadi

Preparation Time:    Cooking Time:    Total Time:     3
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Ingredients


1/4 kg yam (suran)
1 small cup toovar (arhar) dal
1 small cup coconut
3 to 4 green chillies
2 " piece of ginger (adrak)
curry leaves (kadi patta)
1 lemon size ball of tamarind (imli)
1 tsp coconut oil

Method

  1. Clean the yam,remove skin and dice it into small cubes of 1" approximately.
  2. Cut green chillies into small rings and ginger into small pieces.add to the yam.
  3. Pressure cook yam and toor dal in cooker in separate vessels for 4-5 whistles.
  4. Remove yam from cooker. extract juice of tamarind and recook yam in this juice for 3-4 minutes. grind coconut to a coarse paste. add this paste and the cooked toor dal to the yam.
  5. Season with 2-3 drops of coconut oil and curry leaves.

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